, 1887-08-13
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

n large party Vi QUA DpTlnRS, luduO,
excursionists we're aboard the west-bound
train last evening.
The automatic organ free concert drew
a large audience at Inman x Pasmore's
music store yesterday.
A travelling photographer, who halls
from Colorado, is taking views of resi-
dences, etc., about the city.
The police made another round up in
the west end last night and secured one
victim, an inebriated woman.
There will be a practice shoot at artifi-
cial birds by members of the Cheyenne
Gun club at the fair grounds this after
noon.
A pair of industrious peddlers succeeded
in selling a large number of what they
termed Wrinkle Eradicators'' about the
city yesterday.
1t is said that a Cheyenne friend of the
family will cause Robert Day, formerly
clerk for VIM. Myers, to be released from
Jail to-day or tomorrow.
The train from the East arrived in two
sections last evening, secured additional
motive power at this point and proceeded
over the hill in one section.
The exceedingly heavy rainfall last
evening kept everyone in doors. While
duly appreciated, the shower arrived a
few weeks later than when most desired.
Iron is being placed in position on the
second story of the tower OF the capitol
building. The work is in charge of Mr..
II. P. Button, of the Cheyenne foundry.
Several of the more-stubborn and dan
gerous prisoners at the county jail have
been provided with immovable irons for
the wrist, the ordinary chain handouts
being considered insufficient.
Clary & Collender, proprietors of The
Fair" the new store next to Dyer's hotel,
will throw the place open to the public in
a few days. They received another large
invoice of goods yesterday.
The sample filter which has been tested
in front of the opera house this summer
will be returned to the manufacturers.
The city will not purchase filters for the
water system for a year or more.
Several race horses are already in train
ing at the fair grounds for participation
in the exercises in the speed ring next
month. A local horseman declares that
the purses offered by the association are
not large enough.
The business and mechanical review of
Cheyenne, which appears in this issue of
The LEADER, was written up by Messrs.
Sickle 4 Kennedy of Boston. 1t is neat.
novel and natty and a credit to the gen
tlemen as well as our city.
A runaway team, attached to an empty
wagon, dashed along Nineteenth street
yesterday afternoon, and only halted
after colliding with a barb wire fence
near the fair grounds. Repairs and lini-
ment will cost the owner of the rig about
$50.
When the storm was at its height last
evening a lady who was rapidly rushing
down Sixteenth street stumbled and fell.
Strange to say, she rose up and proceeded
on her journey before either of the sixteen
men who ran to her assistance had ar
rived.
Six warrants for the arrest of an equal
number of inmates of houses of i'll fame
were issned by Judge Lee yesterday. The
police were unable to apprehend the
females, and it is naturally concluded that
they have emigrated beyond the city
limits.
Crazy Horse Curly has returned from a
trip to Dale creek, where he asserts he
hooked 3l6 trout in twelve hours. This
is rapid work, to say the least, but the
fisherman had four long strings of
speckled beauties with which to substan.
tate his declaration.
Two females, recently arrested upon the
usual charge preferred against residents
of Chicago, will have a hearing before
Judge Fisher to-day. They have secured
counsel and propose to test the legality of
the city ordinance providing for their APP
prehension and punishment.
There will be a ball game at the fair
grounds Sunday afternoon between the
Cheyenne Red Stockings and the nth
infantry club. The former nine has been
practicing industriously and are confident
of defeating the soldiers. The CHEYENNE
club play in North Platte a week from to-
morrow.
Willis Stanley Yesterday swore out a
complaint against Chas. Meggs, a drunken
cowboy who was furiously riding and
artistically emitting volumes Of profanity
greatly to the annoyance of the neighbor-
hood in which Mr.. Stanley resides. Meggs
was locked up and will be arraigned before
Judge Lee this morning.